Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-07-10
BENwOOD.
of The Rellaer.

BENwooD, July 9.-The work of mac
adamizing the lower section of the road is
progressing nicely.
The forge department will resume this
week if the scale be signed.
The Riverside steel plant will resume
Tomorrow. II has been shut down for a
period of four or five weeks
The net proceeds of the picnic held the
Fourth by the X. OF l.. Assembly, OF this
place was S26.
Miss Mary Coke, a charming young
lady, of Main street, is the guest of friends
at Triadelphia. ,
Mrs. James Smith, ST., OF Centre ward
is very i'll.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Bowers and daughter,
Miss Virginia, returned yesterday from q
visit to Freeport, O.
Miss Carrie Hopkins is the guest Of
friends in GAINESVILLE, o.
Mr.. Edward Kehoe is dangerously i'll.
Messrs. Will Portertield and John CleylS
returned Friday from q trip to to the west.
Several families will shortly remove to
the camp ground at Mouudsville.
The sale of the Harrington property in
lower ward which had been postponed
from the previous week, took place yester-
day.
Mr.. O'Connell will remove his family to
Pittsburg this week.
A number of Centre ward residents take
their trains at the Riverside platform.
The proprietor of the Owens has had to
have the ferry landing filled out owing to
the low stage of water in the river.
The Cheat Mt. H. and F. Club took a
cuisine artist with them.
Quite a number Of boys and youth are
engaged in gathering coal from the river
bed.
Messrs. G. Fitzgerald, ST., L. Schad, I.
Carroll, and j. McCahe, returned Thurs
day from a fishing excursion TO Wheeling
Creek.
A committee of puddlers from Columbia
Lodge No. 10, of A. A. OF |. and ). W.,
waited on the general manager OF the Ben
wood Iron Works yesterday morning for
the purpose of having the scale for the en-
suing year signed. But they were informed
that owing to disagreement and the effect
OF their signing it without the Npilers
Lodge that the company did not feel dis.
posed to sign it. T c committee then
went to Wheeling to seek the advice of Vice
Presidene Dennis 0'Leary' 1t is the gene.
raj opinion that the scale will be signed in
n few days and the mill resume.
Miss Lille Bush is visiting her home in
Parkersburg.
Miss Ellie Haight is the guest OF friends
in M~eundsville.
The sale of the Harrington property was
again postponed, the highest bid being
1916.
The Board of Education of this district
met according to law at the Office of the
secretary, Monday. DIR. II. I. Ford, Pres
ident, and Mr.. G. G. McMechen, Commits
sioner, were sworn into Office. A. L.. Pei
ley, Esq, was reelected Secretary. The
teachers salaries were made the same ar
last year with the exception that they will
receive the same per month throughout
the term. Teachers levy, one and n half
mills; building fund, one mill. The same
trustees were appointed in each Of the
sub-districts, with the exception of Nos. .
and 6, where they declined rerving.
Messrs. II. Myers and A. McCombs were
respectively appointed to fill the yacan-
cies. The Board adjourned to meet on the
10th inst.
Miss Annie Clifford, of this place, has
taken her position in the Central telephone
office OF B~ellaire.
A young man who had been accustomed
to spend a few days or n night, as the case
might be, who detained in town, at a
boarding house in Lower ward, went there
usual one night last week, not knowing
that the party who had kept boarders had
moved away aud the house was now occu-
pied BY a private family. The door was
locked, but as the hour was late the young
man did not marvel at this, but entered
through q window, q room which he had
been accustomed to occupy. The room
had two beds in it and the young man
composed himself to rest in one of them,
and sometime In the night was aroused
by some n asking for a drink of water.
He thought the man las he supposed
talked weak and faint, so he volunteered
to so TO the pnmp and get him a glass of
water. On returning he found TO his con
slernation that he other occupants of the
room were a young lady aud her mother.
He spent the remainder of the night at an
Other hotel, and had to explain his mis-
take in the Mayors Office yesterday.